Senior Frontend Engineer

Palo Alto, CA or Remote (Hybrid Optional) About aklivity Founded by the pioneers of WebSocket, Aklivity is redefining how enterprises manage real-time data. Our efforts center on the next-generation of API infrastructure that transforms operational data streams into real-time data products. Platform teams at organizations like Siemens, Kone and N Brown rely on Aklivity to deliver reliable, highly performant governed access to real-time data across teams, applications and systems. We're a tight-knit, seasoned team of innovators and doers backed by leading investors including 468 Capital, Pear Ventures and Alumni Ventures. The Role We’re looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer to lead development of a management control plane for Zilla — our streaming-native API gateway. This is a high-impact role that will shape the user experience for how platform teams configure, monitor, and govern access to real-time data. You’ll work closely with our core engineers and early enterprise customers to deliver a modern, performant, and intuitive frontend that will democratize access to real-time data streams both inside as well as across companies. What You'll Do Design and build the management UI for configuring Zilla deployments, managing Kafka topic access, API policies, security rules, and observability. Collaborate on frontend architecture and component design, with a focus on modularity, testability, and scalability. Integrate with backend services via REST, GraphQL, Postgres and/or gRPC—helping define frontend-friendly APIs where needed. Implement data visualizations for access patterns, throughput, latency, and governance compliance using tools like D3 or Recharts. Define and uphold frontend coding standards, performance targets, and UI accessibility best practices. Iterate on mockups, workflows and wireframes with team members and customers/prospects. Write clear documentation that allows users to learn everything they need to know to effectively use the Zilla Management Console within their environment. What We're Looking For 5–10 years of experience building and shipping modern SPAs (React preferred). Fluency in TypeScript, modern JS build pipelines (Vite, Webpack), and frontend state management (Zustand, Redux, or similar). Experience building frontend systems for technical users (e.g., DevOps, platform teams, or enterprise admins). Solid understanding of API design, authorization models, and real-time data UIs. Strong product sense: able to translate complex backend concepts (Kafka, APIs, RBAC, metrics) into simple, clear UI interactions. Experience with component libraries (e.g., Tailwind, Radix, shadcn/ui) and building accessible, production-grade UIs. Why Aklivity Be part of a small, senior team building a product that’s reshaping real-time data infrastructure. Own core user-facing systems from the ground up. Work with customers who are deploying cutting-edge streaming architectures at global scale. Competitive salary, early equity, and benefits. Remote-first with flexible work culture. #J-18808-Ljbffr Aklivity